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THE 



CHRISTIAN SABBATH 



OR THE 



SABBATH OF THE NEW COVENANT 




BY 

JOHN N. GILBERT. 

Austin, Texas, 



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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



THE 



CHRISTIAN SABBATH 



OR THE 



SABBATH OF THE NEW COVENANT 



BY 

JOHN N. GILBERT. 

Austin, Texas, 



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PREFACE. 



In writing this little book I do not do 
so in the spirit of censorionsness^ but in 
the spirit of my Master. I have written 
this that I might confute error^ and lead 
People to see the beantifnl Truth and 
Harmony in God^s plans. His Word, 
and ^orh. I do not destroy^ but give 
each Truth its place and time^ as well 
as its purpose for which God has 
intended it. I, do ask that it may 
be read in the same spirit in which it has 
been written; compare and read with the 
Word, and the Truth will come to you 
and give you an understanding heart; 
so as you read you can see that the 
change from the Sabbath of the Deca- 
logue^ or seventh day^ has been Divinely 
Ordained by the Holy Ghost^ and that 
the Sabbath of the New Covenant falls 
by his authority on the First Day of the 
Week. 

John N". Gilbert. 



The following letter of endorsement 
from Et-v. E. J.^Briggs, D. D.. will speak 

for itself: 

Mr. J. X. Gilbert. Austin. Texas : 

My Dear Bro. — I have carefully read 
j'our manuscript entitled "'The Christian 
Sabbath, or the Sabbath of the Xew 
Covenant." and can confidently recom- 
mend it to all who are in doubt or nn- 
certainty. as to the scripturalness of the 
abolition of the seventh day, and the ob- 
servance of the first day of the week as 
a Sabbath. Your argument is clear and 
convincing, and can not be successfully 
attacked until men prove that the Alo-aic 
dispensation did not pass away by iv/.r'"/.- 
ment^ and that the Xew Covenant is a sort 
of neoplasm or excrescence upon the old. 
I hope that wherever Adventism has car- 
ried its shadows of confusion and mis- 
conception your little book may follow 
as a light that shineth in a dark place. 
Yours trjly. 

E. J. BeiltGS, D. D.. 
Austin. October 16. 1900. 



The following letter of commendation 
from Eev. H. M. TThaling, Ph. D., tes- 
tifies to the merit of the book: 

ArsTix, Tex., Oct. $4, 1900. 
Mr. John X. Gilbert : 

Dear Bro. — I have carefully read the 
manuscript of your book, ''The Chris- 
tian Sabbath, or the Sabbath of the Xew 
Covenant,'* and take pleasure in saying 
that it is not only an unanswerable refu- 
tation of the erroneous opinions of the 
Adventist, but that it also contains a great 
deal of valuable information that will be 
helpful to all thoughtful students of the 
Word. 

I cheerfully commend it to all lovers 
of the Bible. Xo one can read and ab- 
sorb its teaching without being armed 
against many of the common heresies of 
the day. 

^ Dr. H. :\I. Whalixg, Ph. D., 
Pastor Tenth Street M. E. C. S. 



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CHAPTER I. 

The Commandmeiits^ given to Moses 
for the Jews^ or the Israelites. Time, 
B. C. 1491. 

Exodus, 20—7 : 'Thou shalt not take 
the name of the Lord thy God in vain, 
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless/^ 

8. "Remember the Sabbath day 'to 
keep it holy.^^ 

9. "Six days shalt thou labour and do 
all thy work.^^ 

10. "But the seventh day is the Sab- 
bath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt 
not do any worlc, nor thy son, nor thy 
daughter, nor thy man servant, nor thy 
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the stran- 
ger within thy gates/' 

11. "For in six days the Lord made 
heaven and earth, the sea and all that in 
them is, and rested the seventh day; 
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath 
day, and hallowed it/' 



8 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

How many of our Advent friends keep 
this part of God^s Laws and Command- 
ments ? The Jews did not keep it at that 
time^ but often were disobedient. I find 
no place where God was partial in the 
keeping of his commandments. His com- 
mand was jnst as positive on one part as 
upon another. In the Old Covenant, sal- 
vation was of tvorlis and carnal ordi- 
nances^ as in Galatians^ 3 — 12 : ^^The 
law is not of faith; but the man that 
doeth them shall live in them.*' If God 
said keep the ''Seventh day'' as a ^^Sab- 
bath/*' He also said keep the ''Seventh 
year'' as a Sabbath of rest^ just as pos- 
itively as he said keep the "^^Seventh day." 

Leviticus, 25—1 (B. C. 1491) : ''And 
the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount 
Sinai, saying: 

2. ''Speak unto the children of Israel, 
and say unto them, 'When ye come into 
the land which I give you, then shall the 
land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord.' 

3. "Six years thou shalt sow thy field. 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 9 

and six years thou shalt prune thy vine- 
yard^ and gather in the fruit thereof/^ 

4. ^^Bnt in the seventh year shall be a 
Sabbath of Rest unto the land, a Saibath 
for the Lord, thon shalt neither sow thy 
field nor prune thy vineyard. '^ 

5. ^That which groweth on its own 
accord of the harvest, thou shalt not reap^ 
neither gather the grapes of the vine 
undressed, for it is a year of rest "onto 
the land/^ 

ISTow, by what authority does the Ad- 
ventist discard one of these ^^Command- 
ments/^ and keep the other? Does not 
God say just as positively to keep one as 
he does the other? And so he does with 
every one of them, because the ^^Old 
Covenant'' ^^shadows forth the fulfilling 
of the law/^ and the coming in of the 
^'IS^ew Covenant/' 

Leviticus 23—4 (B. C. 1490) : 'IThese 
are the feasts of the Lord, even holy con- 
vocations, which ye shall proclaim in their 



10 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

5. ^*^In the fonrteenth day of the first 
month at even is the Lord^s passover/^ 

6. ^^And on the fifteenth day of the 
same month is the feast of unleavened 
bread^^ (a shadow). 

Our Lord was crucified on the fifteenth 
day of i^isan^ being the '^Tamb that was 
slain in the passover/^ 

10. '^^When ye come into the land 
which I give unto yon^ and shall reap the 
harvest thereof^ then ye shall bring a 
sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest 
nnto the Priest.^^ (A shadow. Christ 
hecame first fruits,) 

11. ^^And he shall wave the sheaf be- 
fore the Lord to be excepted for yon; on 
the morrow after the Saihath the priest 
shall wave it.^"^ 

On the morrow after the Sabbath; that 
would be on the first day of the week, 
^The Lord rose on the first day of the 
week/^ %emg the first frnits of the Xew 
Covenant over death.^^ 

On the morrow : a shadow of the Chris- 



THE CHEISTIAX SAEBATH. 11 

tian Sabbath. Then it gives the order of 
observing the feast^ and in the 15th verse : 
^^And ye shall count unto yon from the 
morrow after the *Saibath, from the day 
that ye brought the sheaf of the wave of- 
fering; Seven Sabbaths shall be com- 
plete/' 

16. ''Even unto the morrow after the 
Seventh Sabbath (first day of the weelc) 
shall ye number fifty days, and ye shall 
offer a new meat offering nnto the Lord/' 

Fifty days brings again the first day 
of the tueelc. 

Fifty days after the Passover Moses 
Received the Laiu of Commandments on 
Mount Sinai. (A shadow.) 

Fifty days after the Resurrection the 
Holy Ghost came on the First day of the 
week. (On the morroiu After the Sab- 
bath, Bringing in the New Covenant, 
and also establishing the Christian Sab- 
bath, which I win note more fully again.) 

Now^ these feasts are jnst as binding 
as any jpart of the ''Commandments/^ 



12 THE CHRISTIAX SABBATH. 

We will see what the Lord says. 

Leviticus, 25 — 18 : ^^herefore, ye 
shall do my statutes and keep my judg- 
ments^ and do them: and ye shall dwell 
in the land in safety.'^ 

Leviticus, 26 — 14: '^^But if ye will not 
hearken unto me, and will not do all 
these Commandments f' 

15. And if ye shall despise my stat- 
utes, or if your soul abhor my judg- 
ments, so that ye will not do All My 
Commandments, but ye BreaJc My 
Covenant/' 

16. '^1 also will do this unto you. I 
will even appoint over you terror, con- 
sumption, and burning ague that shall 
consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of 
heart, and ye shall sow your seed in vain, 
for your enemies shall eat it.*' 

So '3"ou can see there is no way marked 
out, only by keeping All His command- 
ments. There is nothing that will take 
the Place of the Old Covenant or make 
it void, but the Fulfihnent of the Prom- 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 13 

ise^ which hrings in the 'New Covenant, 
which is by Faith, and not of works, as 
in the old, yet we find the old pointing 
with Signs and Prophecy to the coming 
of the neiv. 

Hebrews^ 10 — 1 : ^Tor the law having 
a Shadow of good things to come^ and 
not the very Image of things, can never 
with those sacrifices which they offered 
year by year continually make the comers 
thereunto Perfect/' 

We see also in 

Exodus, 31—16 : ^Wherefore the 
children of Israel shall keep the Saiiath, 
to observe theSabbath throughout their 
generations, for a perpetual covenant/' 

17. ''It is a Sign between me and the 
Children of Israel forever, for in Six days 
the Lord made heaven and earth, and on 
the Seventh day He rested and was re- 
freshed.^^ 

It is a Sign of things to come, 

Paul says (Colossians, ^—^i] : ^^Let 
no man therefore judge you in meat or 



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drink^ or in respect of an holy day^ or of 
the new moon^ or of the Sabbath days/' 
(Which in the law of commandments was 
''a Sign/') 

17. ''Which are a shadow of things to 
come. But the body is of Christ/' 

(Here Paul is correcting the error of 
the Colossians^ by still keeping or return- 
ing to their traditional worship of ordi- 
nances and days, which are ended in 
Christ. ) 

Colossians^ 2 — 6 : ^^As ye have there- 
fore received Christ Jesus, the Lord, so 
walk ye in Him/^ 

9. 'Tor in Him dwelleth all the ful- 
ness of the Godhead bodily/^ 

For he has taJceii up in Himself All 
the Law of commandments and ordi- 
nances. 

10. ''And ye are complete in Him/^ 
(not in the seventh day) "which is the 
head of all principality and power.^^ 

11. "In whom also ye are circum- 
cised with the circumcision made with- 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 15 

out hands; in putting off the body of the 
sins of the fleshy by the circumcision of 
Christ/^ 

12. ''^Buried with Him in baptism^ 
wherein also ye are risen with Him 
through the faith of the operation of God, 
who hath raised him from the dead.^^ 

So yon see in this plan of Salvation, 
not the observances of the ''Seventh day'"" 
or "ordinances'^ as of old, but by faith 
in the "operation of God'' through Christ, 
who is our atonement for our sins. 

13. "And you being dead in your sins 
and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath 
He quickened together with Him, having 
forgiven you all trespasses." 

"Having forgiven you all trespasses, 
blotting out the handwritng of ordinances 
that was against us, and was contrary to 
us, taking it out of the way, nailing it to 
His cross." 

Now He means the ordinances that are 
taken away, and among the things named 
is the Sabbath days, so you see there is 



16 THE CHRISTIAX SABBATH. 

no authority for us to observe the seventh 
day or the Jewish Sabbath; because it is 
no more a commandment than was cir- 
cumcision, that we have just read. 
^ Which was made with hands^^ (verse 
11), or meat offerings. No, he sweeps 
them all aside and says it is '%j faith'^ 
in and through Christ. 

Hebrews, 10 — 10 : ^TBy a new and 
living way, which He hath consecrated 
for us, through his flesh.^^ 

Yes, the Law was the shadow of things 
to come, and tliey did come in Christ, and 
in ''Him dwelleth all the fulness of the 
Godhead bodily,^^ and Paul certainly 
made it very plain to the Colossians that 
Christ was the "end of the law.'' Then 
how much plainer should it be to us who 
live under the New (Gospel) Dispensa- 
tion of to-day. They had been reared un- 
der the Law and could be easily confused 
as to the true way, but we should not 
have this cloud between us and Christ, 



T TTF CHEISTIAX SAEBATH. 17 

^Vho is able to save to the uttermost all 
that will come to him. through Faith.*' 

John. 14 — 6. Jesus says: ^T. am the 
way. the truth, the life/" 

One evening at our cottage holiness 
prayer meeting an Advait minister 
claimed the Seventh day as the SaiiatJi, 
and said that no man could ohtain Holi- 
ness or Sanctification, only through the 
Exodus Commandments. That of course 
meant that the Seventh day must be kept 
as a Sabbath. 

My answer was that I did not get my 
Holiness through the Exodus Coraw.and- 
ments, but by Faith through and in Jesus 
Christ. 

Jesus saith "I am the way,"* and it was 
through Him and through His cleansing 
power that I was ''ivJiolly sanctified'' and 
made Holy, and not by the observance of 
the seventh day or Jewish Sabbath. So 
Paul not only set the Colossians right, but 
he also shows the Hebrews the same 



18 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

thing, and to ns on? dnty and privilege 
nnder the new covenant. 

And he is more plain in showing that 
they were no longer under any part of the 
Law of '^^Commandments^^ to observe the 
seventh day, but there is ''another day 
limited/' so he says to them: 

Hebrews, 3 — 1 : "Wherefore, holy 
brethren, partakers of the heavenly call- 
ing, consider the Apostle and High Priest 
of our profession, Christ Jesus.^^ 

2. "Who was faithful to Him that 
appointed Him, as also Moses was faith- 
ful in all his house.^^ 

3. "For this man was counted worthy 
of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as 
He who hath builded the house hath more 
honour than the house.^^ 

4. "For every house is builded by some 
man, but He that built all things is G-od.^^ 

"And as God first gave a promise to 
Abraham, and then gave the Law of com- 
mandments to Moses four hundred and 
thirty years after, which was to last until 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 19 

the fulfilling of the promise/^ (See Gal., 
3_16 to 24.) So ''He that built all 
things'^ has also the right to take away 
the law of works, and establish the prom- 
ise (which is Christ), by faith. So it is 
no longer the Law, for ''Christ is the end 
of the Law.'' Eom., 10—4 : "For Christ 
is the end of the Law for righteousness 
to every one that believeth.'' 

Hebrews, 3 — 5 : "And Moses verily 
was faithful in all his house as a servant, 
for a testimony of those things which 
were to Be Spohen After/' (A shadow.) 

Yes, Moses was a servant, a testimony 
of things to be "spoken after'' (see chap- 
ter 10 — 1) ; "a shadow of good things 
to come," and it came. 

6. "But Christ as a Son over His own 
house, whose house are we; if we hold 
fast the confidence and the rejoicing of 
the hope firm unto the end." 

"Hold fast the confidence and the hope 
firm unto the end." That is, trust in 
the New covenant, which is Christ; not 



20 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

to go back under the Law^ which means 
bondage again (Gal.^ 4 — 9) ; bnt let your 
Eest be in Christy by Faith for "^^He is 
our Peace/^ whose house are we; and 
*^^He dwells in us/^ and walks in us. 

Hebrews^ 4 — 1 : ^^Let us therefore 
fear^ let a promise being left us of enter- 
ing into His rest^ any of you should seem 
to come short of it/^ 

Bear in mind that the promise was 
given to Abraham IfSO years before the 
Law was given to Moses, and Paul re- 
minds the Jews that the Gospel dispensa- 
tion had come that was promised: 

2. ^*^Por unto us was the gospel 
preached, as well as unto them; but the 
word preached did not profit them, not 
being mixed with faith in them that 
heard it/^ 

3. ^Tor we which have believed do 
enter into rest, as He said. As I have 
sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into 
my rest, although the Worhs were finished 
from the foundation of the world/^ 



THE CHEISTIAX SABBATH. 21 

Yes, we have believed and have entered 
into rest; and although the works were 
finished, and the ^'Xaw of commandmenis 
ended/* yet there was the same chance 
for them that ivas for us, and that was 
not by worl's hut by Faith in Jesus Christ 
the Son of God — the '''Xew Covenant/' 

Which is onr Eest. and a rest for all 
the world. 

Now. if yon will observe and stndy 
closely the followins: verses, from -i to 11. 
yon can see that the seventh day or Jewish 
Sabbath was done away with as a Sabbath 
of rest, and another day Limited as a 
Sahiath to the People of God. 

4. '^Tor he spake in a certain place of 
the Seventh Day, on this wise. And God 
did rest the Seventh day from all his 
work."' 

5. '^"And in this place again, if they 
shall enter into my rest.'' 

Notice how it is now changing from 
works, nnto grace through faith which 
covers the entire world. 



32 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

6. ^^Seeing, therefore^ it remainetli 
that some must enter therein^ and they 
to whom it was first preached entered not 
in^ because of unhelief (had no faith). 

7. ''Again, He Limiteth a Certain 
Day, saying in David: "To-day after so 
long a time as it is said to-day^ if ye will 
hear His voice harden not your hearts" 
(Psalms^ 95)^ which is a prophesy of the 
coming of Christ and the Holy Ghost, 
and the new covenant, as will be shown 
further on. You can see by this verse 
that another day has been limited tuhich 
takes the place of the Seventh Day. Note 
the next verse : 

8. "For if Jesus" (marginal reading, 
if Joshua) "^Tiad given them rest, then 
would He not afterward have spoken of 
another day." 

It does seem to me that our Advent 
friends have failed to read this part of 
the scriptures. "For if Joshua had given 
them rest," "Then He would not have 
spoken of another day" (New version). 



THE CHEISTIAlSr SABBATH. 23 

9. ^^There remaineth therefore a rest 
to the people of God^^ (marginal^ or a 
keeping of a Sabbath). 

New version: ^There remaineth there- 
fore a Sabbath rest for the people of 
God/^ 

So yon may take the old or new ver- 
sion^ and it does away with the seventh 
day as a Sabbath. 

10. ^Tor He that is entered into His 
rest^ He also hath ceased from His Own 
Works^ as God did from His.^^ 

11. ^^Let ns labour^ therefore^ to enter 
into that rest^ lest any man fall after the 
same example of unbelief.^^ 

Well^ says one^ when shown this scrip- 
ture^ he did not believe that we were com- 
pelled to keep any day. Yes, we are: for 
''He Umiteth another day'' for a Sabbath 
to the people of God/^ and as I have 
shown a disannulling of the Seventh Day, 
I am confident that I can establish to any 
thinkings fair-minded person that the 
First Day of the week or Lord's day is 



24 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH- 

the Limited day, of which. I will speak 
further on; but it is not the day we wor- 
ship or receive onr salvation through^ but 
through Jesus Christ onr redeemer^ the 
^^New and living way/^ See ! 

Hebrews^ 7 — 11 : '^'^If, therefore. Per- 
fection were by the Levitical priesthood'' 
(for under it the people received the 
Law)^ ^Vhat further need was there that 
another priest should rise after the order 
of Melchisedec^ and not be called after 
the order of Aaron.*^ 

12. "^Tor the priesthood being changed, 
there is made of necessity a change also 
of the Law/' 

13. ^Tor he of whom these things are 
spoken pertaineth to another tribe^ of 
which no man gave attendance at the 
altar.'' 

14. ^'FoT it is evident that our Lord 
sprang out of Jiidah^ of which tribe 
Moses spake nothing concerning priest- 
hood.'' 

15. ^^And it is far more evident: for 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 25 

that after the similitude of Melchisedec 
there ariseth another priest/^ 

16. "Who is made^ not after the Law 
of a carnal commandment, but after the 
power of an endless life/' 

17. 'Tor he testifieth, Thon art a 
Priest forever after the order of Melchi- 
sedec.^^ 

18. 'Tor There Is, verily^ a Disan- 
nulling of the Commandment, going be- 
fore for the weakness and unprofitable- 
ness thereof/' 

This verse is very plain In Disannul- 
ling the Commandment which covers the 
seventh day also. 

19. 'Tor the Law made nothing per- 
fect, but the bringing in of a Better Hope 
did. By the which we draw nigh unto 
God.^^ 

So yon can see that the plan of salva- 
tion brings in a better hope^ '^by which 
we draw nigh unto God/^ through our 
Lord^ who is able to make you perfect by 
Paith^ a thing the Law could not do. 



36 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

And now, as you read, Tceep the facts 
before you that are given in Hebrews, 
Jf — Jf^ that it was the seventh day Paul 
was talking about, in verse 7, "another 
day is Limited,'' or the doing away with 
the seventh. Eighth verse, Joshua did 
not give them rest, and as the margin 
reads, verse 9, "there remains a Eest,^^ "or 
the keeping of a Sabbath,^^ "to the people 
of God;^^ and in addition to, and with 
these verses, come back to the seventh 
chapter, verse 12, "there was a change ;^^ 
"For the priesthood being changed.^^ So 
also of necessity a change in the Law.^^ 
Verse 18 shows that there was a "disan- 
nulling of the commandment,^^ so that a 
better hope might come. 

Now, in the second chapter, we turn to 
Jeremiah and bring in the New Covenant 
that is spoken of there. 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 37 



CHAPTER II. 

Jeremiah, 31 — 31 : '^'^Behold the days 
come, saith.the Lord (that is good au- 
thority), that I will make a new covenant 
with the house of Israel and with the 
house of Judah.^^ 

Onr Lord came out of that house of 
which Paul has spoken. 

32. ^^l^ot according to the covenant 
that I made with their fathers, in the 
day that I took them by the hand to 
bring them out of the land of Egj^pt, 
which my covenant they brake, although 
I was an husband to them, saith the 
Lord.^^ 

^sTow this verse shows that the old cov- 
enant, the Law of Commandments, was 
disannulled. 

33. *^^But this sliall be the covenant 
that / luill make with the Jioiise of Israel. 
After those days,^ saith the Lord, I will 
put my Laiv in their inward parts, and 



28 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

write it in Their Hearts, and will be their 
God^ and they shall be my people.** 

la their hearts. This means that we 
mnst have an experimental Religion Born 
of the Spirit, not of dead works, but the 
real living, live Spirit in yonr heart as 
a witness crying Abba, Father. Yes, 
written in our hearts. Xow see how Paul 
in explaining these things to the Hebrews, 
shows that the Xew Covenant was made, 
and we wereunder no part of the old: 

Hebrews, 8—7: 'Tor if that first 
Covenant had been faultless,, then should 
no place have ieen sought for the second." 

8. 'Tor finding fault with them, he 
saith, Behold the days come, saith the 
Lord, when I will make a Xew Covenant 
with the house of Israel and with the 
house of Judah'* (Heb., 7 — 14). 

The ninth and tenth verses are the same 
as written by Jeremiah, of which Paul 
said that that time had come in verse 

13. 'Tn that he saith: A N'ew Cov- 
enant he hath made, the first Old. Novj 



THE CHEISTIAX SABBATH. 29 

that which decayeth and waxefn old is 
ready to vanish aivay/' 

So joii see the old ^as only a shadow 
of good thing? to come, vrhich brings us 
to Hebrews 10 — 20, a "new and living 
way.'' 

Hebrews, 10 — 21: "'And having an 
high priest over the honse of God.'" 

Heb.^ 10 — 22: "Xet ns draw near with 
a true heart in full assurance of Faith. 
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil 
conscience and our bodies washed with 
pure water."' 

^STot by keeping the seventh day. Xow^ 
Paul wrote these things A. D. 64: also 
to the Colossians in the same year, which 
we will refer to again. Xow let ns see 
what he has to say to the Galatians on tliis 
same subject which was written A. D. oS. 

The Christians is the plan of the com- 
mandments in Clir'.s': ; if we live in Christ 
through the spiritnal 'jirth. then we live 
without sin. which takes in all., bv the 



30 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

''Faith of the Son of God/^ Paul shows 
its workings and effects in Gal.^ 2, A. 
D. 52. 

16 V. ''Knowing that a man is not 
justified by the works of the Law, but by 
the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have 
believed in Jesus Christy that we might 
be justified by the faith of Christy and 
not by the works of the Law.^^ 

Now^ then^ to the person that has been 
born of the Spirit^ and has been filled 
with the Spirit^ and taught by the Spirit, 
so that the Bible, when he reads it, is God 
talking to us, this will appear very plain ; 
but to the person who starts in to read 
the Bible in a literal way, and not having 
the Spirit of God born in him, that per- 
son will get to himself confusion. PauFs 
key to the reading of the Bible is given 
in 2 Timothy, 2 — 15, but the verse 
should never be separated : 

' 'Study to shew thy self approved unto 
God a workman that needeth not to be 
ashamed.^^ (Some stop right there and 



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THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 31 

call for your work^ but what is your 
works ? Add the rest of the verse) : 

''Rightly dividing the word of truth/' 

But let us turn to 

Galatians, 2—17: ''But if while we 
seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves 
also are found sinners, is therefore Christ 
the minister of sin? God forbid/^ 

18. "For if I build again the things 
which I destroyed, I make myself a trans- 
gressor.^^ 

19. "For I through the Law am dead 
to the Law, that I might live unto God.^^ 

20. ''I am crucified with Chrisf ^ (none 
but the spiritual can understand this), 
''nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ 
liveth in me; and the life which I now 
live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the 
Son of God, who loved me, and gave him- 
self for me.^^ 

21. "I do not frustrate the grace of 
God; for if righteousness come by the 
Law, then Christ is dead in vain.^^ 

Now, it is six years later when Paul 



32 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

wrote the third chapter^ and it seems that 
they have become tainted with the idea 
that they must use some of the old law^ 
such as observing days^ so he asks them 
what moved them to leave the faith. Hear 
him: 

Galatians^ 3 — 1 : ^^0, foolish Galatians^ 
who hath bewitched yon^ that ye should 
not obey the truth, before whose eyes Je- 
sus Christ hath been evidently set forth 
crucified among you/^ 

2. ^^This only would I learn of you, 
Eeceived ye the Spirit by the works of 
the Law, or by the hearing of faith/^ 

3. ^^Are ye so foolish, having begun 
in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by 
the flesh/^ 

Let one that reads these verses digest 
the meat there is in them, and especially 
those who are arguing for the seventh day 
for a Sabbath. Whoever doeth these 
things mahes the all-sufficiency of Christ 
a failure. 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 33 

4. ^^Have ye suffered so many things 
in vain^ if it be yet in vain.'^ 

5. ^^He^ therefore^ that ministereth to 
yon the Spirit^ and worketh miracles 
among yon, doeth He it by the works of 
the Law, or by the hearing of f aith/^ 

6. ^*^Even as Abraham believed God, 
and it was accounted to him for right- 
eousness/^ 

Yes, Abraham could look on down 
through the ages and see the day of our 
Lord Jesus. John, 8 — 56 : "Your Father 
Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he 
saw it and was glad.^^ 

Galatians, 3 — 7 : "Know ye, therefore, 
that they which are of faith, the same are 
the children of Abraham.^^ 

8. "And the scripture, foreseeing that 
God would justify the heathen through 
faith, preached before the gospel unto 
Abraham, saying: In thee shall all na- 
tions be blessed.'' 

9. "So, then, they which be of faith 
are blessed with faithful Abraham.'' 



34 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

10. '^^For as many as are of the Worlcs 
of the Law are Under the Curse, for it is 
written, Cursed is every one that eontin- 
ueth not in all things which are written 
in the hook of the Law to do them/' 

What a fearful thing it is for the Ad- 
ventist to claim Christ as his saviour and 
at the same time bring in the seventh 
day a part of the old Law. How they 
can conceive that they can discard all the 
rest of the Law and keep this, and just 
that seventh day, is sufficient to biing the 
curse of the Law upon them. 

11. ^'But that no man is justified by 
the Law in the sight of God, it is evident ; 
for the just shall live by faith.'^ 

12. "And the Law is not of faith but 
the man that doeth them shall live in 
them.** (Be careful.) 

13. '^^Christ hath redeemed us from 
the curse of the Law, being made a curse 
for us; for it is written. Curbed is every 
one that hangeth on a tree.** 

14. "That the blessing of Abraham 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 35 

might come on the Gentiles through Je- 
sus Christy that we might receive the 
promise of the Spirit through faith/^ 

15. ^^Brethren, I speak after the man- 
ner of men; Though it be a man^s cov- 
enant^ yet if it be confirmed^ no man dis- 
annnlleth or addeth thereto. ^^ 

The covenant between God and Abra- 
ham was confirmed by an oath of God. 

16. ^^i^ow to Abraham and his seed 
were the promise made. He saith not. 
And to seeds^ as of many; but as of one. 
And to thy seed^ which is Christ.^^ 

N"ow listen to the next^ and if yon think 
the seventh day commandment is not of 
the past^ turn to Jeremiah^ 31 — 31^ and 
Hebrews, 4—4, 7, 8. 

17. ^^And this I saj^, that the covenant 
that was confirmed before of God in 
Christ. The Law, which was four hun- 
dred and thirty years after, can not dis- 
annull, that it should make the promise 
of none effect.^^ 

18. ^Tor if the inheritance be of the 



36 THE CHEISTIAN- SABBATH. 

Law^ it is no more of promise; But God 
gave it to Abraham by promise/^ 

Now read carefully and study the next 
verse, and yon can see the part the law 
played in the plan of Salvation : 

19. ^^ Wherefore then serveth the law. 
It was added because of transgressions. 
Till the Seed Should Come to whom the 
promise was made; and it was ordained 
by angels in the hand of a mediator. ^^ 

20. ^^KTow, a mediator is not a mediator 
of one^ but God is one.^^ 

21. ^^s the Law, then, against the 
promise of God. God forbid ! For if 
there had been a law given which could 
have given life, verily righteousness 
should have been by the Law.^^ 

22. ^^But the scripture hath con- 
cluded all under sin, that the promise by 
faith of Jesus Christ might be given to 
them that believe.^' 

23. ^^But before faith came we were 
kept under the law. Shut up unto the 



THE CHEISTIAX SABBATH. 37 

faith Tvliich shoiilcl afterwards be re- 
vealed/^ 

'Now, notice the next verse: 

24. ^'Wherefore the Laio ivas our 
Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that 
we might be justified by faith/^ 

25. ^^But after faith has come we are 
no longer under a schoolmaster/' 

Christ is the end of the Law. I wonder 
if those who teach the Seventh day doc- 
trine ever read these scriptures^, and yet 
what great harm they are doing to others 
by misleading them so that they will miss 
Christ. 

26. ^Tor ve are all the children of 
God by faith in Christ Jesns.'^ 

We read of the time that the Ark was 
being returned to the children of Israel, 
and the road was rock\^ and roughs so that 
the Ark shook and one of the men that 
accompanied it was afraid lest it turn 
over. He reached forth his hand to 
steady it, but the instant his hand touched 
the Ark he fell dead. The Lord was tak- 



38 THE CHKISTIAX SABBATH. 

ing care of the Ark. And so in this case. 
He has provided a plan of Salvation^ 
through faith in Christy and He says 
Come. But here comes one; he is afraid 
the Ark Tvill turn over, and he runs to 
the old la^v to get the seventh day to prop 
it vrith. He thinks he can improve on it, 
but the moment he touches the old Law 
he drops dead. Yes, ivithout Christ. 
^Tor in Christ all are made alive.*" 

Exodus. 31—16: '^They shall keep the 
Sabbath throughout their generations.^^ 
How long is a generation f 

17. ^^t is a Sign.^^ Here we have 
Paul saying that it is only a ^'^schoolmas- 
ter* to bring us to Christ/" and Christ 
says ^''I am the way.** In writing this 
I do not propose to use any authority 
that is not sustained by the Bible, which 
is the word of God, so I have used Paul 
as the authority and expounder of this 
matter, only punctuating with enough of 
my own thoughts (under the Spirit) to 
rivet the attention of the reader to the 



THE CHEISTIAX SAEBATH. 39 

definite points made by Panl on the sub- 
ject before iis. so I will turn yonr atten- 
tion to Paul again. 

A. D. 58. Galatians, 1 — S : '''Bnt 
thongli we. or an Angel from Heaven. 
Preach any other gospel than that which 
we have preached unto yon^. let him be 
accursed.'' 

What a fearful thing it is to try to 
steady the Ark. Some say if a man is 
honestly mistaken God will not hold it 
against him. Yes, He will, if we preach 
any other gospel that leads others wrong. 
The man that put his hand on the Arl- 
had good Infenfions, but the ark was not 
to be touched. Eev., 22 — 19. Xeither 
added to or taken from. 

Galatians, 3 — 29: "And if ye be 
Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, and 
heirs according to the promise.*' 

Galatians, 4 — i: "'But when the ful- 
ness of time was come, God sent forth 
his Son. made of a woman, made under 
the Law.'' 



40 THE CHEiSTlAX SABBATH. 

5. '^^To redeem tliem that were under 
the Law. that we might receive the adop- 
tion of sons.'* 

Xow. in the next verse he gives the 
evidence and assurance of the spiritual 
birth^ when yon are adopted as a Son, and 
if yon have not this glory filling the soul 
with peace, strive for the experience. 

6. ''And because ye are Sons, God 
hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into 
our hearts crying Abba. Father.'* 

The soul that receives this witness can 
not close his mouth upon the truth. He 
will know it and will tell you that he does 
know it. It is positive testimony. 

7. ^'^TVTierefore thou art no more a 
servant, but a Son: and if a Son. then 
an heir of God tlnough Christ.'* 

ISTot by keeping the Jewish Sabbath or 
any other part of the Law of command- 
ments ; But ^' an heir of God through Je- 
sus Christ.*^ Carefully note the follow- 
ing verses : 

8. ^'Howbeit. then, when ve know not 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 41 

God;, ye did seryice nnto them which by 
nature are no gods/^ 

9. ^'^Bnt now^ after that ye have known 
God^ or rather are known of God, how 
turn ye again to the weak and beggarly 
elements, whereunto ye desire again to &e 
in bondage/' 

After having known God, how turn ye 
again to the Seventh day of the week, and 
beggarly elements that will bring yon 
into bondage again. It is like the chil- 
dren of Israel citing for the onions and 
garlic, that they left in Egypt, even while 
the Lord was feeding them on heavenly 
manna, and at the same time pointing 
to Canaan, where the land was filled with 
milk and honey. 

Now hear Paul in the next verse: 

10. ^^Ye observe days, and months, 
and times, and years.^^ 

11. ^^I am afraid of you, lest I have 
bestowed upon you labour in vain.^^ 

So you see how earnestly he set forth 
and how plain Paul made these things; 



42 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

how he shows the passing away of the old 
and coming in of the new. He shows 
them what a terrible condition they are in 
after having received the faith, to turn 
again to the law. or bondage again. Some 
will try to exclude the Ten Command- 
ments as separate, and say they are still 
in force, Paul does not so teach. 

2 Corinthians, 3—6 : '^ho also hath 
made ns able ministers of the Xew Tes- 
tament*' (Xew covenant), ^^not of the 
letter'' (which is the Old), '"but of the 
Spirit; for the letter killeth*' (dead under 
the Old), '%v± the Spirit giveth life/*' 

7. '^'^Bnt if the ministration of death" 
(old), ^'written and engraved in stones," 
{ttie Ten Commandments) ^'was glor- 
ious." So that the children of Israel 
could not steadfastly behold the face of 
Moses for the glory of his countenance. 
Which Glory was to be Done Avsay. (Ee- 
ference, Exodus, 34 — 1.) 

8. ^^How shall not the ministration of 
the Spirit" (life) ^Tdc rather glorious." 



THE CHPJSTIAX SAEBATH. 43 

9. "Tor if the ministration of con- 
demnation be glorr^' (commandments), 
•'much more doth the ministration of 
righteousness exceed in glory.*' 

11. "Tor if that which is done away 
was'* (old) "glorious, much more that 
which remaineth is glorious.*" (This 
takes the seventJi day, for it tal'es the Ten 
Commandmenis.) See Eomans. T — 1. 5. 
6. T. 8^ 9. 10. So you can see that Paul 
plainly teaches that we are " mini sters of 
the Xew Testament."* or covenant, and 
that the old has passed away. 

Xeither does Jeremiah teach it : 

Jeremiah, 31 — 31: "Behold the days 
come, saith the Lord, that I will make 
a new covenant with the house of IsraeL 
and with the house of Judah.** 

32. ^^Xot according to the covenant 
that I made with their Fathers in the day 
that I took them by the hand to bring 
them out of the land of Egypt.*'* 

Now, this covers the entire covenant. 
Even the Ten commandments (see He- 



44 THE CHRISTIAIsr SABBATH. 

brews^ 4 — 4)^ speaks of the seventh day^ 
and that is the Adventist^s strong point 
to confuse people with^ but see the seventh 
and eighth verses shows plainly that ther^ 
was another day limited, and spoken of; 
so there was a new covenant made as 
above;, also in Hebrews^ 8 — 7^ 8^ 9; and 
Paul shows farther that there was a '^dis- 
annulling of the commandment f' ,, Heb., 
7—12, 18, 19; also Gal., S—2Jf, 25; Col., 
2 — 14. He, Christ, taking up in himself 
all the commandments, thus fulfilling the 
law, and He in turn giving out unto us 
such commandments as we should Tceep. 
Ephesians, 2 — 13 : "But now in Christ 
Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off 
are made nigh by the blood of Christ.^^ 

14. "For He is our peace : who hath 
made both one, and hath broken down 
the middle wall of partition between us.^^ 

Now see how He does the work : 

15. "Having abolished in his flesh the 
enmity. Even the Law of Commandments 
contained in ordinances, for to make in 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 45 

himself of twain one new man so making 
peace.'^ 

16. ^^And that He might reconcile 
both unto God in one body b}" the cross, 
having slain the enmity thereby/^ 

"Having abolished in his flesh/' He 
came and lived the law as a man, and 
fulfilled it as a man, obeying and taking 
up in His own flesh every particle of the 
law. 

Oolossians, 2 — 14: "Blotting out the 
handwriting of ordinances, that was 
against us, which was contrary to us, and 
took it out of the way, nailing it to his 
cross.^' 

How few in the days of Jesus under- 
stood what He was doing for the world. 
While He was sojourning here as the son 
of man, they did not know that in the 
everyday life He was fulfilling and taking 
up in His own flesh the Law that none 
of them had been able to keep, and there- 
fore was "grievous unto them/^ and they 
were trulv under sin. And on this verv 



46 THE CHEISTIAX SAEBATH. 

subject we have the words of Jesus say- 
ing (Mathew. 5 — IT) : •'Think not that 
I am come to destroy the Law^ or the pro- 
phets: I am not come to destroy, but to 
fulfill/'-- 

18. *Tor verily I say unto you. till 
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one 
tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law. 
till all be fulfilled.-'* 

And He fulfilled the law and folded it 
up and put it away, for the law made 
nothing perfect. 

Hebrews. T — 19 : "Tor the law made 
nothing perfect, but the bringing in of 
a better hope did. by which we draw nigh 
unto God."' 

The Jews dont believe that the law 
was fulfilled; neither do the Adventists. 
Btit let me show something they have 
not learned: Tlie Old Testament talks 
of God. The Xevj Testament talks in 
the four looks of the gospel, of Jesus, the 
Son of God, Then from the Acts of the 
apostles to Be relation, talks of the Holy 



THE CHEISTIAX SABBATH. 47 

GliQst Dispensaiion, of ivJiich we are liv- 
ing under to-day. 

l!so\r^ with this statement before you^ 
I ^11 give YOU further light about the 
changing of the seventh day^ as given in 
Hebrews, 4 — i. 7. 8. The fourth verse 
speaks of the ^^seventh day/^ Seventh 
verse : ^'Again he Limiteth a certain 
day^ saying, in David^ To-day after so 
long a time, as it is said. To-day if ye will 
hear His voice, harden not your hearts/^ 

Jfow, note the words of 

Hebrews, 3 — 7 : '^^'Wheref ore as the 
Holij Ghost saith^ To-day if ye will hear 
His voice, harden not your hearts/^ 

As the Holy Ghost saitJi. So you can 
see that the changing is the ivork of the 
Holy Ghost^ and the establishing another 
day will show also His work. 

Well, says the Adventist, Christ kept 
the seventh day as a Sabbath, and he told 
us to keep it: nowhere in the New Testa- 
ment did he command us to Tceep the 
seventh day. 



48 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

Yes^ He kept it^ for He was fulfilling 
the law^ taking it np in himself^ and at 
the same time bringing in the law of 
Faith and of Mercy^ snch as healing and 
love^ in doing all the good He could, say- 
ing, ^^I am the way/^ So we find the 
Pharisees were sticklers for that day; 
they did not want his disciples to eat on 
the Sabbath, neither that He should heal 
anyone on the Sabbath, so we hear Him 
say to them: 

Mark, 2—27: ''And he said nnto 
them, The Sabbath was made for man, 
and not man for the Sabbath/^ 

28. ''Therefore, the Son of man is 
Lord also of the Sabbath/^ 

The Adventist tries very hard to prove 
that Jesus was here establishing the 
Seventh day for Sabbath, but He was far 
from teaching anything of the kind, but 
was taking the Sabbath up in himself, 
the same as the rest of law. Yes, the 
Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath, With 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 49 

Power to Remove it, and Poiver to give 
to. the people of God Another Saiiath 
day. I have a lot of their scripture quo- 
tations to prove that Jesus commanded 
the apostles and disciples to keep the 
seventh day. 

The truth it^ Jesus never told any one 
to keep the seventh day^, but the Bible 
shows the complete fulfilment of this part 
of the Law. as well as the rest of the law. 

JSTow^ the truth is all the four books 
of the gospel record the last Jewish Sab- 
bath^ which the Adventists use to show 
the seventh day as the Sabbath of the 
New Testament. In order to answer and 
call attention to their pointy I use the 
paragraph that they use^ that you may 
also use your reasoning powers, so that 
as I close this by showing the Christian 
Sabbath, you can readily understand it. 
They refer to Mark, 16—1, ''And when 
the Sahiath tvas Past." Yes, the Jewish 
Sabbath was past — a thing of the past. 



50 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

Now, on these withhold judgment until 
a further showing. Again, Mathew, 28 
—1 : '7n the end of the Sabbath/' The 
Jewish Sabbath was ended and disan- 
nulled. 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 51 



CHAPTER III. 

The Adventists think they have found 
something new^ but they are only drag- 
ging those who will be led by them back 
into Judaism; they are trying to improve 
on what our Lord has donO;, by steadying 
the Ark as it moves. 

Jesns Christ has provided ^^a new and 
living way^^ that can not be improved 
upon; it is a Perfect way^ and all-snflB- 
cient. And He gives unto ns the Com- 
mandments that He would have us keep, 
but remember that He writes His law in 
fche Christian's heart, and Their life be- 
comes His commandment. 

Mathew, 19 — 16: ''And behold, one 
came and said, what good thing shall I 
do, that I may have eternal life.^^ 

17. ''Keep the commandments.^^ 

18. "Which r 

Jesus said: "Thou shalt do no mur- 
der. 



52 THE CHRISTIAX SABBATH. 

"^^Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

''Thou shalt not steal. 

''Thau shalt not bear false witness.^^ 

19. "Honour thv father and thy 
mother, and thou shalt love thy neigh- 
bour as thyself.*' 

AYe have the lawyer ask in 

Luke, 10—25: ''What shall I do to 
inherit eternal life T' 

And he makes him give his own an- 
swer. 

26. "What is written: how readest 
thou r 

27. "He said, Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with 
all thy soul, and with all thy strength, 
and with all thy mind, and thy neigh- 
bour as thyself.'* 

28. "This do and Thou shalt live.''* 
Then again, in Matliew, 22 — 35, we 

find a lawyer asking questions : 

36. "Master, which is the great com- 
mandment in the law?*' (Jesus does not 
tell him the seventh dav.) 



THE CHPJ5TIAX SABBATH. 53 

37. ''Jesus said, Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with 
all thy soul, and with all thy mind/' 

39. ''And the second is like unto it, 
Thou shalt love they neighbour as thy- 
self.^' 

40. ''On these two commandments 
hang all the law and the prophets/^ 

(Not on the seyenth day.) 

Now then, look at these cammand- 
ments, just as Jesus has called attention 
to them, and then take a sinful man. let 
him be conyerted, and then sanctified 
and filled tvith the Holy Ghost, and it 
will produce in that man's life the keep- 
ing of every commandment, eyen if he 
has neyer heard of the Ten Command- 
ments. 

Well, you say, what has that to do with 
it? It shows this, that the command- 
ments are no longer written on tables of 
stone for us to do them. But they are 
ivritten in the Heart of eyery true child 
of God, and as a spiritual result are re- 



54 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

produced in the life lived now^ as we are 
under the Holy Ghost^s witnessing and 
teaching. 

Hebrews^ 10 — 14: "For by one offer- 
ing He hath perfected forever them that 
are sanctified/^ 

15. '^^Wherefore the Holy Ghost also 
is a witness to us; for after that He had 
said before.^^ 

16. '^'^This is the covenant that I will 
make with them after those days^ saith 
the Lord. I will put my laws into their 
hearts^ and in their minds will I write 
them.^^ 

17. "And their sins and iniquities will 
I remember no more. (Jeremiah^ 31 — 
31.) A new covenant He hath made^ the 
first old. Now that which decayeth and 
waxeth old is ready to vanish away.^^ 

To illustrate^ see the Saviour^s words 
about committing adultery^ showing that 
the law is in the heart. 

Mathew^ 5 — 28 : "But I say unto you^ 
That whosoever looketh on a woman to 



THE OHEISTIAN SABBATH. 00 

lust after her, hath committed adultery 
with her already in his heart/'" 

Yes, it is written in his heart, and the 
commandment there written, means more 
than literally doing the act, it goes in to 
the very thoughts and desires of the heart. 
See! 

Mathew, 15—19: 'Tor ont of the 
heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, 
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false wit- 
ness, blasphemies."^ 

20. ''These are the things that defile 
a man."' 

1 John, 3 — 15, says : 'THiosoeTer 
hateth his brother is a murderer, and ye 
know that no murderer hath eternal life 
abiding in him."' 

The new reaches much deeper and 
means more than the old. The shadow 
has grown into a reality. Xow, as we 
have noted the change in the command- 
ments, and the plan of their reproduction 
in the heart, through spiritual life in 
Christy we will note other changes. 



56 THZ CKEISTIA^' SABBATH. 

He ::t~^. ? — 1 ; *Tor the priesthood 
being onan^ci. in ic is made of necessiry 
a change also of the law.'^ 

18. ^Tor there is verily a Disannull- 
ing of the Commandment going before, 
for the we^ikness and unprofitableness 
thereof/' 

19. ^Tor the law made nothing per- 
fect. But the bringing in of a better hope 
did: by which we draw nigh nnto God.'^ 

]^ow^ in disannulling of the command- 
ment^ the Seventh day also has ceased to 
be the SahhatJi^ and it is included in the 
disannulling (Verse 18), and we see that 
(Heh.. ^ — i I Paul was speaMng about 

HeoicTTs. - — i: "Tor He spake in a 
certain place of the sevenrh day. on t'nis 
~:-e; An^ - ■ did rest on the ?eTon:n 
da zr :ni a A His works.^^ 

Vniich day was included in :ne n en- 
nnlinr :: ehe : : noniandments. 

?, 'nlgain He '-'-'> if efh a cerfmn day, 
saying m Ha-ii." - Pca^nis, 95, a pro- 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 51! 

phesy) ^^To-day^ after so long a time^ as 
it is said: To-day if ye will hear his 
voice;, harden not your hearts/^ 
Then we have these words in 
Hebrews^ 3 — 7 : ^^Wheref ore^ as the 
Holy Ghost saith : To-day if ye will hear 
his voice/^ 

8. "Harden not yonr hearts/^ 
So then there is another day limited^ 
and spoken of. It mnst come in with 
the Holy Ghost dispensation. 

As the Holy Ghost saith. To-day. If 
ye will hear his voice^ harden not yonr 
hearts^, To-day. The day that the Holy 
Ghost came, and He did not come until 
after the ascension of our Lord. Then 
He came in Poiuer and authority, to teach 
and to lead the people of God in the ways 
of truth, and to take the things of Christ, 
and show them unto us. See John^ 14 — 
16, 17, 26; John, 15—26; John, 16—13, 
14, 15; also, 1 John, 2—20, 27. And 
now, as we are under His leadership, and 
to be taught by Him, He will teach ns 



58 THE CHRISTIAlSr SABBATH. 

and show us the Christian Sabbath^ and 
many other things concerning onr Lord 
and His will towards us. Acts^ 1 — 2 : 
^^The former treatise have I made^ 0, 
Theophilus^ of all that Jesus began both 
to do and teach^ until the day in which 
He was taken up ; after that. He Through 
the Holy Ghost had given commandments 
unto the apostles whom He had chosen/^ 

After that^ He gave commandments 
through the Holy Ghost. Just what Je- 
sus said in John, 14 — 26 : "But the Com- 
forter^ which is the Holy Ghost, whom 
the Father will send in my name, He 
shall teach you All Things, and hring 
All Things, to your remembrance, what- 
soever I have said unto you/^ 

In the fifteenth verse, He speaks these 
words : "If ye love me keep my com- 
mandments/^ 

Which would be spohen by, and through 
the Holy Ghost. 

And now, as Jesus has come and lived 
the law and fulfilled it, to the last jot or 



THE CHRISTIAN" SABBATH. 59 

tittle^ which was the end of the Jewish 
Sabbath (Math., 28 — 1), and then on the 
First day of the week He rose again in 
triumph over death, thereby commencing 
His resurrected life and power, on the 
First day of the wee'k. And now, watch 
how plainly that the First day of the week 
becomes that other day that was Limited 
in Hebrews, 4 — 7, 8, by every important 
event in the Holy Ghost Dispensation. 
See now His coming in 

Acts, 2 — 1 : ^"^And when the day of 
the Pentecost was fully come, they were 
all with one accord in one place/^ 

Jesus had told them to tarry in Jeru- 
salem, so there they are all with one ac- 
cord, and he had told them that they 
should receive power after the Holy Ghost 
should come upon them. 

Acts, 2 — 4 : '^And they were all filled 
with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak 
with other tongues, as the Spirit gave 
them utterance.^^ 

As the Spirit gave them utterance. 



60 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

Yes^ tliey were now filled with the Holy 
Spirit and He was to lead them^ and did 
lead them. 

And when the day of Pentecost was 
fully come. Pentecost^ which signifies 
Fiftieth, was the last day of the feast of 
weeks^ i. e.^ seveii iveeks after the pass- 
over. It was the Fiftieth day after the 
16th of Xisan; and as onr Lord was cru- 
cified on the 15th of Xisan^ which that 
year fell upon Friday^ and his resurrec- 
tion was on the First day of the iveelc, so 
Pentecost, which was Fifty days after, 
came on the First day of the iveek. 

Thus was the Christian Sabbath set 
apart^ not only by the resurrection of the 
Son of God. but also by the effusion of 
the Holy Ghost. Yes^ He came on the 
First day of the weeh, saying, ''To-day, 
if ye ^'ill hear his voice^ harden not your 
hearts.^^ (He Limiteth another day.) 
He came on the First Day of the week. 
The Jews computed that the Law wa^ 
given from Sinai (a shadow) on the 



THE CHEISTIAX SABBATH. 61 

Fiftieth day after their Fathers left 
Egypt; and now^ Fifty days after the 
sprinlcling of the Hood of the true Paschal 
Lamb, the Holy Ghost comes (The Real, 
the Substance) on the First Day of the 
week, and vre have a spiritual leader to 
teach lis to ^rorship God in Spirit and 
in trnth^ and gives iis the First day of the 
ireeh as a Christian Saibath; bnt our Best 
is in Christy through Faith. 

Then^ again. Revelation teas given to 
lis on the Lord's day, which is conceded 
to be the First day of the iveeh by all 
spiritual Bible students. So again the 
first day of the week vas honored by our 
Lord and the Holy Ghost, by the Holy 
Spirit taking the things of Jesus and the 
Father, and shoving them nnto us. 
John, 16—13, U, 15. 

isTow, the Adventist does not recognize 
the establishing of the First day of the 
week as the Christian Sabbath as the work 
of the Holy Ghost, bnt the Xew Testa- 
ment does. As a proof see Acts, 1 — 16, 



62 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

how He filled the place of Judas; and 
then^ in regard to limiting the other day^ 
see Hebrews^ 3 — 7^, distinct work of the 
Holy Ghost. But the Adventist claims 
the Eoman Catholics did it^ by the order 
and decree of Constantino^ a Priest or 
Pope of his day^ which time was A. D. 
321 (now note the dates that I give from 
this on), and I have heard Catholics make 
claim that they set apart the day, but as 
they claim that they are the true church 
and the only authority of God on earth, 
I do not wonder at the claim of the E(T- 
man church, because they claim the apos- 
tles as Eoman Catholics, which claim is 
not correct, for the Catholic church proper 
did not consolidate ivitli the Eoman 
church until after A. D. 300. So the 
Catholic church is the true church, but 
the Eoman Catholic church is not, for it 
brings in and still clings to pagan rites 
and ceremonies that never were a part of 
the church of the apostles. And to refute 
this claim of both the Eoman Catholics 



THE CHEISTIAK SABBATH. 63 

of to-day and the Adventist^ I will use 
authority found in the Eoman Catholic 
Bible commentary^ and this Bible is re- 
vised and corrected under the superin- 
tendence of Eev. Fredric Canon Oakeley, 
M. A.^ with the approbation of the Car- 
dinal Archbishop of Westminster and 
John Card. M'Closky^ Archbishop of Xew 
York. ISTow this is certainly good au- 
thority, for the Catholics recognize it 
everywhere. 

N'ow, here is what I find in this Bible 
in regard to the seventh day, as given in 
the Ten Commandments, as a Sabbath to 
the Jews in the law: 

Exodus, 20 — 8: ''Eemember that thou 
keep holy the Sabbath day.^^ 

ISTow, here is the comment made on 
this passage: 

^^Saturday was kept holy by the Jews 
in honor of God^s resting. The apostles 
have authorized us to 'keep Sunday in- 
steady to commemorate the mysteries of 
Christ^s resurrection, etc.*^ 



64 THE CHEISTIAX SABBATH. 

jSTow^ this does not look like it was done 
lij Constantine in A. D. 3.21 in his day^ 
or that it was of Roman Catholic origin; 
but it does look like it is good authority;, 
that it was the worl- of the Holy Ghost, 
through the apostles^ and as (Pentecost) 
the Holy Ghost came on the First day of 
the week, and set the apostles preaching 
the gospel^ and three thousand were con- 
verted on that day^ it is evident that the 
First day of the we el' was recognized as 
the Christian Sabbath. 'Bnt with some 
its regular observance was broken^ for 
many of the early Christians were slaves 
and belonged to heathen masters^ and 
were often compelled to labor on that day^, 
until the day was made legal for their 
protection, in A. D. 321 years after, and 
then, as the Catholic chnrch merged into 
the Eoman Catholic church at the date 
it did, and all of the apostles being dead 
at the time, that they would have the 
records of the early chnrch, and what 
the apostles tanght and established. I 



THE christians' SABBATH. 65 

will give another quotation found in the 
same Bible: 

1 CorinthianS;, 16 — 1 : ^'Xow^ con- 
cerning the collections that are made for 
the Saints^ as I have given order to the 
churches of Galatia^ so do you also.*'' 

2. '^•On the first day of the Tveek^ let 
every one of you put apart with himself, 
laying up what it shall well please him; 
that when I come^ the gathering be not 
then to be made.** 

l^ow, the comment on verse 1 is : St. 
Paul had been charged by the apostles at 
the council of Jerusalem to collect alms 
from the faithful of other churches for 
their poor brethren in Palestine. 

The comment on verse 2 is : •'On the 
first day of the week^ which is Sunday, 
and our Sabbath, and not the Jewish Sab- 
bath, as St. Chrys observes, so that before 
this time (A. D. 59) the apostles had 
appointed the first day of the week for 
the worship of God."^ 

Now, this is Eoman Catholic Bible com- 



66 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

mentary testimony as to when and who 
appointed the first day of the week as a 
Sabbath. 

So yon see that as early as A. D. 59, 
which was twenty-six years after the re- 
surrection, also Acts 11 — 26, which was 
A. D. 42, nine years after, that the 
churches were organized and in full oper- 
ation, and observing the first day of the 
week as a Sabbath. Now, this shows in 
accord with what we have already noticed 
of PauFs writing to the Hebrews, and to 
the Galatians, and to the Colossians as it 
appears in this writing. Yes, they took 
up a collection on the Sabbath; the 
churches still do so on the Sabbath. 
Again we see Acts, 20 — 7 (Protestant, 
A. D. 60; Catholic, A. D. 58): "And 
upon the first day of the week when the 
disciples came together to break bread^^ 
(the Lord^s supper) "Paul preached unto 
them ready to depart on the morrow.^^ 

No, no. Let us not try to tear down 
the work of the Holy Ghost and give it 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 67 

to man. Our Sabbath is Diyinely Ap- 
pointed^ and man can not change it or 
desecrate it without suffering for it. 

Infidel France tried that by taking 
from her statute the Christian Sabbath^, 
and the result was that France as a first- 
class nation rapidly fell in the scale to 
a third-class nation^ when she again re- 
cognized the Sabbath in her laws. 

Yon say^ how do yon know that the 
Holy Ghost appointed the day ? He said 
so on the day of Pentecost. Heb.^ 3 — 1, 
and Heb.^ 4 — 7. Then he pnt it into 
the hearts of the apostles to keep that day. 
Heb., 8 — 10. ^T will pnt my laws into 
their mind, and write them in their 
hearts.^^ And they were all with one ac- 
cord and kept that day, and so did the 
churches. 

Yes, the Holy Spirit did lead them and 
teach them, and he is still leading his 
disciples. 

He led Phillip to the chariot of the 
eunnch. Acts, 8—26, 29^ 39. 



68 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

Peter was used by Him^ with Ananias 
and Sapphira. Acts^ 5 — 3. 

The Spirit led Peter to Cornelius. 
Acts, 10. 

He led Paul to Macedonia. Acts, 
16—9. 

He led Ananias to Saul. Acts, 9 — 
10, 17. 

He led Paul to Elymas. Acts, 13 — 8, 
9, 10. 

And we see in Acts and Hebrews where 
the Holy Ghost spake through the mouth 
of David in regard to the day. So also 
has He spoken through the apostles, and 
they observed the Christian Sabbath, and 
as has been shown already, Paul has 
been used largely by the Holy Ghost to 
correct the people and get them right on 
this matter. 

And yet the Adventists stop at the re- 
surrection, which honored the first day of 
the week with a risen Lord. They do not 
recognize the Holy Ghost working 
through and teaching the apostles what 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 69 

the will of our Lord was concerning the 
day to be kept as a Sabbath to the people 
of God. 

Hebrews^ 10 — 1 : ^Tor the Law hav- 
ing a shadow of good things to come, and 
not the very image of the things, can 
never with those sacrifices which they 
offer year by year continually make the 
comers thereunto perfect.^^ 

The Law could not make us perfect, 
but was only a shadow. 

So also were the Ten Commandments 
a shadow of the commandments that 
Christ would give unto us ; so then, as the 
commandments were disannulled (Heb., 
7 — 18), which was the shadow of the new, 
which retains all the principles of the old. 
Yet the new reaches much farther and 
deeper, by including our thoughts and 
desires. In the old, if you did not stick 
a knife in your brother to murder him, 
you had kept the commandment not to 
kill. In the new, he that hateth his 
brother is a murderer; so also is the 




70 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

seventh day^ as a Sabbath^ a shadow of 
the Christian Sabbath. See Leviticus^ 
23—10, 11. The first fruits of the har- 
vest which were waved on the first day 
of the week, the shadow. Christ, the 
first fruits in the (New) Resurrection. 
First day of the week. 

Fifty days later, sending the Holy 
Ghost on the First day of the week, which 
brings us into the new covenant dispensa- 
tion under the Holy Ghost. 

The law was given fifty days after the 
children of Israel left Egypt (a shadow). 
Fifty days after the Resurrection the 
Holy Ghost came, disannulling the old, 
and bringing in the new, by which men 
could be made perfect, through faith in 
Christ. 

The Old was by works — a Shadow. 
The ISTew, hy Faith in Christ. 

By Grace are ye saved, and not of 
works. It is the Gift of God. 



THE CHEISTIAN SABBATH. 71 



CHAPTEE IV. 

Hebrews, 8—13 : ''In that He saith : 
A new covenant; He hatk made the first 
old. Now that which decayeth and wax- 
eth Old is ready to vanish away/' 

And the Holy Ghost came ushering in 
the new covenant, and teaching and 
preaching the spiritual way iy faith in 
Jesns Christy and in his blood, as a Siiflfi- 
ciency for the Atonement for all onr Sins, 
which is shown plainly in the ninth chap- 
ter of Hebrews^ which shows the old was 
a figure (verses 8^ 9) ''for the time then 
present, which stood only in carnal or- 
dinances (verse 10) until the time of re- 
formation.^^ 

11. "But Christ being come an high 
priest of good things to come^ by a greater 
and more perfect tabernacle^ not made 
with hands.^^ 

12. "KTeither by the blood of goats and 
calves^ but by his own Hood, he entered 



72 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

in once into the holy place; having ob- 
tained eternal redemption for ns/^ 

14. "How much more shall the blood 
of Christy who through the eternal Spirit 
offered himself without spot to God^ purge 
your conscience from dead works (the 
law) to serve the living God. By a new 
and living way^ through his flesh and 
by his bloody whereof the Holy Ghost 
is witness to us^^ (Heb.^ 10 — 15)^ and 
from that day to this^ he has ever 
been a witness to the child of God^ and 
has blessed the Christian Sabbath and 
Hallowed it iii the Salvation of the Mil- 
lions who have been his true followers, 
and have gone home shouting "victory; 
all is well;^^ and the Holy Ghost was 
their witness that they had kept His com- 
mandments, and they kept the first day 
of the week as the Sabbath of the Lord. 
If they had done wrong in the sight of 
God^ the Holy Ghost would have wit- 
nessed with condemnation for disobed- 
ience. Instead of Peace and Best. Let 



THE CHEISTIAN SABBATH. 73 

the child of God disobey the Holy Spirit's 
leadings and do the things that are not 
right in his sights and see hoTv quickly 
he will feel condemned and be at unrest. 
The Holy Ghost witnesseth to ns. See 
1 John^ 3 — 21 : ^'^Beloved. if our heart 
condemn ns not^ then have we confidence 
towards God.^^ 

The Holy Ghost is our witness. 

22. ^^And whatsoever we ask we re- 
ceive of him^ because we keep his com- 
mandments, and do those things that are 
pleasing in his sight.*^* 

The Holy Ghost is onr witness that 
we do please him. Again 

23. '^And this is his commandment: 
That we should believe on the name of 
his Son Jesus Christ (not the seventh 
day)^ and love one another as he gave ns 
commandment.'^ 

And I am so glad that We that are in 
Christy and have been baptized with the 
Holy Ghost^ have the Holy Ghost as our 



74 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

witness^ without our keeping the Jewish 
Sabbath. 

Now^ in writing this account of the 
Two covenants, and the Two Sabbath 
days, I have only used my Bibles (Protes- 
tant and Catholic), with some comments 
to show that our Christian Sabbath was 
of Divine origin, and was given to us 
through and by the Holy Ghost, He estab- 
'^1 lishing the First Day of the weeh as the 
^ Christian Sahbath at His coming, He 
speaking through the mouths of the 
apostles, and taking the things of Christ, 
and showing what to do and what to ob- 
serve and to teach. 

And as the New Testament shows 
plainly that the apostles had the churches 
organized and in full operation as early 
as nine years, A. D. 42 (Acts, 11 — 22), 
after the coming and descent of the Holy 
Ghost, it is plain to my mind that un- 
der his direction the apostles had set apart 
that day, from the time of his coming, 
as it would naturally take time to organ- 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 75 

ize the different churches that Paul men- 
tions in 1 Corinthians^ 16 — 1^ which was 
twenty-six years after^ or A. D. 59. 

It is evident that the changing of the 
day was the work of the Holy Ghost 
through the apostles^ and not the work 
of the Eoman Catholics through Constan- 
tino, A. D. 321. And now, in order to 
sustain my views and scriptures used, I 
will give some historical points on the 
Sabbath days in question^ gathered after 
I had written this thus far, which will 
refute the Adventist argument and claim. 

I find the following statement in John- 
son^s Cyclopedia, vol. 4, part I : ^^Within 
a century after the death of the last of 
the apostles, we find the observance of the 
first day of the week, under the name of 
the Lord's day, established as a Universal 
Ctcstom of the church, according to the 
unanimous testimony of Barnahas, Igna- 
tius, Pliny, Justin, Martyr, and Tertul- 
lian. 

^^It was regarded Not as a continuation 



76 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

of the Jewish Sahbath (which was de- 
nouncedj together with circumcision and 
other Jewish and anti- Christian Prac- 
tices)^ but rather as a snbstitnte for it; 
and naturally its observance was based 
on the resurrection of Christy rather than 
on the creation rest day, or the Saibath 
of the decalogue. 

'Tertnllian (about 200), in saying that 
Sunday was given to joy, and enjoining 
on it abstinence from secular care and 
labor, makes it evident that the Lord's 
day was regarded as taking the true place 
of the original seventh day Sabbath. But 
the position of the early church struggling 
in to existence^ exposed to persecution, and 
with many of its members Slaves of 
Heathen masters, would prevent unbroken 
regularity of worship and a general ces- 
sation of labor, until the time of Constan- 
tine, A. D, 821, the observance of Sun- 
day as the weekly rest day was Protected 
by Law. 

^T^jater in the historv of the church the 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 77 

connection between the Lord's day and 
the original Sabbath became explicitly 
recognized. The second council of Macon^ 
A. D. 585^ in forbidding secular work on 
that day^ and enjoining that it be occu- 
pied with the hymns and praise of God^ 
says^ Tor this is the day of Perpetual 
Rest; this is Shadowed out to ns by the 
Seventh day in the law and the Pro- 
phets.' " 

Yes^ it was shadowed out to ns by the 
law and the Prophets, as the scripture 
that I have used does certainly prove. 

And that the day was set apart long 
before Constantino's time. He had no 
more to do with establishing the first day 
of the week as the Sabbath than the Gov- 
ernor of Texas has in establishing 
Thanksgiving day by his proclamation 
requesting that the day be observed. 

Then^ again^ the places of worship did 

not take the name of church until the 

coming in of the new covenant^ which the 

Holy Ghost brought in with his coming 

LolC. 



78 THE christia:n" sabbath. 

as our teacher and leader^ and it was 
through. Him and by the authority of God 
the Father, God the Son, that God the 
Holy Ghost came and established the 
church of Christ as well as the Christian 
Sabbath, which was done by his coming 
on the First day of the week, saying. To- 
day is the day of salvation. 

Yes, He Limiteth a certain day. (Heb., 
4 — 7), '^'^saying To-day, not the seventh 
day, nor the seventh part of the time, But 
a Certain day, which was the dwy of his 
coming.'' 

Heb., 4 — 8: ^'For if Jesus (Margin, 
Joshna) had given them rest, then He 
would not have spoken of another da}^^ 
(new version). So "there remaineth a 
rest, or a keeping of a Sabbath to the 
people of God.^^ 

And on the day of the Holy Ghost com- 
ing, He filled the one hundred and twenty 
so full of himself that they all prophesied 
and preached, and they have been preach- 



THE CHEISTIAN SABBATH. 79 

ing on the First day of the week ever 
since. 

And there were many added to the 
church daily; and from that time to this 
the church stands out as clear to the 
Christians, Established by the Holy 
Ghost, as the Temple or Synagogues did 
to the Jews. So has the First day of the 
weelc teen observed, and as distinct, by 
the Christians, unbroken down to the 
present as a Sabbath unto the Lord. So 
Sabbath means the first day of the week. 
Set Apart and Sanctified, and made Holy 
unto the Christians by the coming of the 
Holy Ghost^ just as much as Sabbath 
means the seventh day of the week^ set 
apart and Hallowed and made Holy by 
God, did to the Jews. 

To us it means a Saviour in Christ. 
To the Jews it means the old law without 
Christ or hope. 

Paul says (Heb., 8—13) : '^n that He 
saith new covenant, he hath made the 
first old. Now that which decayeth and 



80 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

waxeth old is ready to vanish away/^ See 
Heb., 7—12, 18 19. A "necessity of 
changing the law/' and a ''disannulling 
of the commandment." 

Yon can see that the Christians did 
observe the first day of the week as a Sab- 
bath (Acts, 2; Acts, 20 — 7), preached, 
and had tlie Lord's supper. We still do 
the same. 1 Cor., 16 — 1, 2 : *^^A collec- 
tion in the chnrches for the poor Saints.^'' 
We do the same. Xotice that it was in 
the churches. Not in the temple or syna- 
gogue. 

But the Adventists claim that Sabbath 
always means seventh day. But it does 
not; it means a day Halloived and set 
Apart by God, but does not mean that 
God can not change the day according to 
his purpose; which the scripture plainly 
show^s. That the first was the sign and 
shadowed forth the second, Heb., 8 — 8. 
And in this they fail to recognize the of- 
fice or work of the Holy Ghost as the 
direct work of God^ according to his pur- 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 81 

pose. Then again^ they claim that the 
term '^commandments^^ always includes 
the keeping of the Seventh day^ although 
the scripture shows (Heb., 4 — 1, 8)^ ^^that 
another day wa5 Limited/^ and Hebrews, 
7 — 18, ^"^shows the commandment was dis- 
annulled.'^ And they, like the Jews in 
PanFs time, are trying to proselyte the 
Christians, ever looking backward to the 
Egyptian field of bondage and servitude, 
and to feast on the Garlic and Onions. 
See how Paul talks to the Christians 
about this matter in Galatians, 3d and 
4th chapters, about the observance of 
these things. 

ISTow, I want to show how their writers 
handle the scripture, and the interpreta- 
tion that they give. I have a pamphlet 
written by Mrs. S. M. I. Henry. Of 
course it is written as question and an- 
swer, axid they ask their own questions. 
For instance: ^^Question: In Col., 2— 
16, is not reference made direct to the 
Sabbath days and holy d^^ys as being 



82 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

blotted out?^^ ^^ Answer: The apostle 
says^ in Col., 2 — 16, Let no man judge 
you in meat or in drink, or in respect of 
an holy day, or of the new moon, or of 
the Sabbath days/^ (The word ^^days^^ 
indicates that the Jews had one day, and 
the Christians another; for awhile some 
kept both days. — Author,) Her words: 
^^Eeference is here made to the right of 
one man to judge another in any of these 
things. These are between every man 
and his God, and in such no man is to 
judge another.^^ 

NoWj here she denies the right of one 
man judging another. 

Yet she herself is sitting in judgment 
on others keeping the Christian Sabbath. 

Now, read Col., 2—14, 15, 16, 17, and 
you can see that Mrs. Henry is not deal- 
ing honestly with Qod's word, for inas- 
much as Paul is here showing those who 
had received Christ by faith that they 
were not under the old law, for the or- 
dinances and observance of days were 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 83 

only a shadow of things to come^, but the 
body is of Christy and when Christ had 
come He (Christ) took these things out 
of the way^ nailing it to his cross; that 
they were no longer to observe these 
things^ as the Jews did^ and were trying 
to proselyte and confuse the Christians, 
so that they would not follow Christ. And 
Paul goes on to show that we are com- 
plete in him, through faith in Christ. 
Then he says, ^^Let no man (Jews) judge 
you in regard -to the Sabbath days, for 
they were shadows of things to come, but 
the body is Christ. Let no man beguile 
you of your reward ; hold fast to Christ.^^ 

Then again: 

^^Question: Will you please explain 
Galatians, 5 — 14, Tor all the law is ful- 
filled in one word, even this^ Thou shalt 
love thy neighbour as thy self .^ ^^ 

"Answer: Galatians, 5 — 14, speaks 
very plainly upon the point of judging 
others.^^ 

How silly is such teaching. 



84 THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 

Now see Gal, 5 — 14, 'Tor all the law 
is fulfilled in one word'' (and that word 
is Christ — John, 1 — 1), and that word is 
Christ, and He takes up the old law in 
Himself (Ephesians, 2 — 15), thus ful- 
filling it. The old law was of works, but 
Christ is love, and He gives us a law of 
love, loving our neighbour as ourselves; 
and to follow Him and to keep His com- 
mandments, which he has given through 
the Holy Ghost unto his apostles, whom 
he has chosen. Acts, 1 — 3. 

And now, in conclusion, let me say, that 
as you read this compare and read with 
your Bible, before and after the passages 
quoted, and you will find the views that 
£ have set forth in this work, strengthened 
and sustained. And it is so with all 
other works. If they do not harmonize 
with the word of God in their teaching, 
they are false. The scripture properly 
interpreted never contradicts itself, for 
God is not the author of confusion, but 
gives forth light and liberty through the 



THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 85 

Holy Ghost to all of Ms true believing 
ctiildren that obediently seek the trnth^ 
as the Truth is in Christ Jesns. 

So, armed with Sanctified common 
sense, the Christian that will patiently 
wait on the Lord for instruction and wis- 
dom is not apt to err or make the word 
contradict itself. 

2 Corinthians, 4—6: "For God, who 
commanded the light to shine ont of dark- 
ness, hath shined in our hearts to give the 
light of the knowledge of the glory of 
God in the face of Jesus Christ.^^ 

And may that knowledge keep you from 
falling or stumbling, is the earnest prayer 
of him who has written this to you. 
Yours, in Christ, 

JOHIs^ N. GILBEET. 

Austin, Texas. 

July 23, 1899. 



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